Five Reasons Why We Use Ruby on Rails

When we have intital discussions with potential website clients, one thing we always talk about is our Content Management System (CMS), called SiteWorks. SiteWorks is a CMS we built ourselves using an open source web development framework called Ruby on Rails (often shortened to "RoR"). People who aren't familiar with web development ususally say something like "Ruby what? " with a chuckle, because it sounds like a cross between candy and an amusement park ride. People who are already familiar with web development will also ask about it, but the question they ask is "Why Ruby on Rails? " It really is a great question. There are so many languages available for creating a CMS: JAVA, PHP, ASP, Perl, Python, Cold Fusion, and many more. In truth, most of the large CMS's in the open source world today run on what we call a "LAMP stack," which means they use "Linux - Apache - MyS...